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# Teaching for Thinking and Reflection with DSRP

## Details

**Authors** Henny Hansmann

**Publisher** 21st Century Economics (21steconomics.org)

**Kind of work** course

**Discipline** Education

**Kind of engagement** scholarly

**Applied** false

[Read it](https://www.21steconomics.org/teaching-for-thinking-and-reflection-with-dsrp/)

## In authors' words

### What they found (results)

Proposes that structuring economics instruction around the four patterns moves students from memorizing models to building and revising their own mental models of economic systems.

## Commentary

### In short

Curriculum guidance for economics teachers that uses DSRP as a classroom method, working through the labor market as a worked example: students distinguish paid from unpaid work and wage types, map employers, unions, platforms and institutions as a system, trace relationships between education, policy and wage determination, and take the perspectives of workers, employers, policymakers and the unemployed.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

**Added** 2026-09-20

**How to cite this** Henny Hansmann (n.d.). Teaching for Thinking and Reflection with DSRP. 21st Century Economics (21steconomics.org).